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AUSTRO-II UNG ARIAN QUESTION. 



Austrian Legation, at Washington, 

The IIM March, 1851. 
Mr. Secretari/ of State : 

I have received an answer to the despatches with which 
I had sent to Vienna the note that you did me the honor to 
address to me on the 21st December last; and I hasten to 
inform you, Mr. Secretary of State, that the arguments con- 
tained in your note have not iiad power to change the 
judgment which the Imperial Cabinet had formed respecting 
the mission of Mr. Dudley Maim, as well as respecting the 
tenor and the terms of the instructions with which he was lur- 
nished. The Imperial Government does not cease to enter- 
tain the opinions contained in my note of the 30th September; 
and it declines all ulterior discussion of that annoying inci- 
dent, unwiUing to expose the kind and friendly relations 
which it desires to preserve with the Government of the 
United States to the danger of being seriously disturbed by 
discussions which could have no practical result. 



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President Fillmore declared, in his Message of the 2d 
December last, that he was determined to act towards other 
nations as the United States desired that other nations shonld 
act towards them; and that he had adopted as a rnle for his 
poUcy, good-will towards foreign Powers, and the abstain- 
ing from interference in their internal affairs. Austria has 
not demanded, and will never demand, any thing but the 
putting into practice of these principles ; and the Imperial 
Government is sincerely disposed to remain in friendly rela- 
tions with the Government of the United States, so long as 
the United States shall not deviate from these principles. 

Please to accept, Mr. Secretary of State, the assurances of 
my high consideration. 

HULSEMANN. 



Department op State, 
Washington, March 15, 1S51. 

The undersigned has the honor to acknowledge the receipt 
of the Chevalier Hulsemann's note of the 1 1th of this month, 
which has been submitted to the President. 

The President regrets that the note of the undersigned, 
addressed to the Chevalier Hiilsemann on the 21st of De- 
cember last, was not satisfactory to the Imperial Govern- 
ment, and that its opinion remains unchanged respecting the 
mission of Mr. A. Dudley Mann, and the instructions with 
which he was furnished. He is gratified, however, to learn 
that the Imperial Government desires to continue the friendly 
relations now so happily subsisting between the two Govern- 
ments — a desire in which he cordially concurs. 

The President is also gratified to learn that the sentiments 
respecting the international relations between the United 



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States and foreign Powers, contained in his last annual Mes- 
sage, meet the approbation of the Imjierial (Jovernnient ; 
and he directs the undersigned to assure the Chevalier 
HUlsenianu that he intends to act steadily in accordance 
with those sentiments. 

The Government of the United States is as little inclined 
as the Cabinet at Vieima to prolong the discussion of the 
topics to which the Chevalier HQlseMuum's note of the 30lh 
of September of last year gave rise. 

In his reply to that note, the undersigned stated the 
grounds upon which this Government held itself justified in 
every thing which it had done cojmected with the mission of 
JNIr. A.Dudley Maim, and the instructions which were given 
to him; and he took the occasion also of declaring the prin- 
ciples and the policy which the United States maintain, as 
appropriate to their condition, and as being, indeed, fixed 
and fastened upon them by their character, their history, and 
their position among the nations of the world ; and it may 
be regarded as certain that these principles and this policy 
will not be abandoned or departed from until some extra- 
ordinary change shall take place in the general current of 
human afiairs. 

The undersigned renews to the Chevalier Ilulsemann the 
expression of his sentiments of regard. 

DANIEL WEBSTER. 

The Chevalier J. G. Hulsemann, 

Chargt iV Affaires of Austria, TVashington. 



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